Hey, moms, looking for ways to take care of yourself and honor your "three things?" Here are some local treats to consider:

Colorful new jewelry, such as the Spring Awakening necklace, $138, from Stella and Dot. PS, you might have seen singer Carly Rae Jepsen wearing this necklace.

Tip: Get 15 percent off through Wednesday if you shop through local associate director Heather Willison: stelladot.com/HeatherW. Before ordering, contact her on her website and mention the Daily Camera special.

Tip: Check out the sterling silver milagros on sale for 40 percent off.

A free mimosa while painting at Posh. Today's special Mother's Day class begins at 2 p.m. and costs $30 for adults, $10 for children. Posh is a paint-and-wine studio that walks you through making a piece of art, step by step. Learn more at poshsplat.com.

A 90-minute Core and Restore class for moms today at noon at Yo Mama. This is time to be alone and take care of yourself. Check the schedule online at yomamaboulder.com for the yoga classes for both parents and kids.

Tip: Yo Mama is running a Facebook giveaway through Monday for new people who like its page. The studio is giving away massages, class packages and a month of free yoga. Winners will be announced Monday.

I made my mother a mother on Mother's Day.

Aww, mushy, mushy, right?

She always makes it sound so sweet when she tells the story.

But the part she kindly omits is how she's never gotten a Mother's Day to herself because I've always joinked it out from under her.

For years, I was content with guilting my mother into celebratory submission -- but then I became a mother, too. Two days after my mom's birthday. Officially joinking her last personal holiday,

to make her a grandmother. Now I feel as if I should relinquish my birthday. I don't

really want it anymore,

anyway.

Of course, Mother Heckel has never complained. And I blind-side my poor husband with a mega-celebration that justifies an extra incredible birth-mothers-day dress.

After all, that's one of my "three things" that sustain me as a creature separate from my daughter. Actually, pretty dresses are all three of my happy things.

I learned about the three things from Katie Wise, the founder of Yo Mama yoga studio in Boulder. She also became a mother on Mother's Day. And to add to the fun, her birthday is on Father's Day.

Needless to say, Wise understands how to share. And as a doula who's helped deliver more than 150 babies, she also knows a thing or two about motherhood.

When Wise was pregnant with her second child, Boulder psychotherapist Kate Kripke with the Postpartum Wellness Center of Boulder asked her a life-changing question: What are the bottom-line three things you do that are your most important self-care? In other words, Wise says, what is your "non-medical prescription for health?"

Wise decided her three things were yoga, a nice protein-packed meal and sleep. (The third is a joke, right?)

Wise says she suffered mild postpartum depression after her first delivery, but identifying and seeking out her three things after her second child helped keep her feeling balanced -- and from hopping on the back of a stranger's motorcycle and running away to Mexico. Or farther. Into the sunset. There's always a sunset in these kinds of fantasies.

"Being a second-time mom is a whole different level. It's still the juggling, but now it's like juggling on a unicycle," she explains, reinforcing my choice to be one-and-done with children.

Whenever Wise felt as if she was about to lose her cool, she would ask herself which of her three things she could access ASAP. A hard-boiled egg? The next available yoga class?

"Sometimes, that reconnects us to who we were before," she says. "For me, one of the biggest indicators that I was not myself after my son was born was my sense of humor was gone."

Today, she says, she lavishes in the hilarity and absurdity of motherhood. Like breast-pumping. She recently pumped while teaching a prenatal yoga training course, and three of the mothers there pumped while learning.

She's adding a new feature to her website: "Where did you pump today?" As she sees it, motherhood is hard enough, without having to hide away certain parts of it.

"That's the new feminism," she says. "It's not about being a dude in the workplace. It's about being a woman who owns a business and brings motherhood right into the face of that business."

Suzanne Unterreiner and her 8-week-old son, Beau, front, and Katie Vahey-Gaebler and her 15-week-old son, Gaebler, practice yoga during a Mommy and Me yoga class at Yo Mama in Boulder.
(Jessica Cuneo/For the Camera)

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